May 18, 2008
If you're like me, blognoscenti, then you might have wondered more than once how a previously enlightened smarty-pants celeb can switch so effortlessly to a philosophy found abhorrent but five minutes before.
I finally figured it out: these media converts from liberalism are all fake conservatives -- not really conservative...
Mens Vogue | Christopher Hitchens | April 17, 2008 05:16 PM
Dennis Perrin | Posted April 10, 2008 | Media
"The liberation of Iraq -- in other words, the decision that we had to move the Iraqi people and the region into a post-Saddam era -- will stand, I'm convinced, as one of the greatest decisions of American statecraft, as one of the things that American soldiers, male and female,...
Huffington Post | April 2, 2008 12:28 PM
Sam Harris | Posted March 21, 2008 | Politics
Barack Obama delivered a truly brilliant and inspiring speech this week. There were a few things, however, that he did not and could not (and, indeed, should not) say:
He did not say that the mess he is in has as much to do with religion as with...
Jordan Michael Smith | Posted March 20, 2008 | Off The Bus
Today, during my mid-afternoon media stroll, I happened upon an article in the Village Voice examining Eliot Spitzer's lust. Except it wasn't an article on Eliot Spitzer's lust--it was article on Christopher Hitchens on Eliot Spitzer's lust. It turns out Hitchens had offered a take on Spitzer and...
Katie Halper | Posted March 5, 2008 | Media
Dear Hamilton Nolan & Gawker:
I want to thank you for your post supporting Christopher Hitchens' claim that women aren't funny. I also I want to apologize for not writing sooner, but between getting my bikini line waxed, shopping, trying, in vain to be funny, and dealing with PMS,...
Huffington Post | Dipayan Gupta | March 5, 2008 01:38 PM
Julie Klausner | Posted March 4, 2008 | Media
A little over a year ago, Vanity Fair ran an editorial diatribe by everybody's favorite Mother Theresa-hating British atheist, Christopher Hitchens, called "Why Women Aren't Funny." This month, in what seems like a belatedly fawning gesture of PR, the magazine put a glamorous Annie Leibowitz photo of comediennes Tina...
Ben Karlin | Posted February 12, 2008 | Entertainment
As part of the promotion and publicity for my new book, Things I've Learned From Women Who've Dumped Me, I have been doing a lot of interviews--especially in what I like to call "the digital space."TM (That's mine.)
Sadly, few, if any interviewers have been asking me the questions I...
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted February 11, 2008 | Living
It is time to finally put to bed a malicious libel against Jews and Judaism that is getting increasing attention in modern media, namely, that Judaism will not allow for the breaking of the Sabbath to save a non-Jewish life. Given that Judaism is the religion that introduced the idea...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | February 1, 2008 04:22 PM
Slate.com | January 28, 2008 06:38 PM
Linda Keenan | Posted January 26, 2008 | Business
Davos, Switzerland
In a move that stunned the participants at the close of the World Economic Forum here in Davos, Earth, Wind & Fire announced a unilateral hike in the Fed Funk Rate, in hopes that an ecstatic, joy-glorious increase in worldwide funk can stave off a global recession.
...Tina Dupuy | Posted January 23, 2008 | Politics
My grandparents just celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary. They got hitched right after Grampa got back from the war. They're both educated professionals. They're proud Americans. We come from a long line of Southern Democrats. My grandparents, the mavericks, are first generation lifelong Republicans. Grampa has a portrait of Ronald...
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted January 17, 2008 | Living
We religious people are not adept at taking criticism. Since religion is based on the idea of divinely revealed truth, most religions would rather hide their imperfections, the better to demonstrate that their practitioners are as infallible as their doctrines.
A recent article in Time magazine identified Utah as the...
Slate | Jack Shafer | January 3, 2008 08:55 AM
Amy Wilentz | Posted December 28, 2007 | Politics
When you know someone personally and have seen them recently, their death at the hands of terrorists seems more real, and more nauseating, than when you hear about the terrible killings of strangers. Somehow, you are more likely to imagine real flesh and real blood and bone. When you...
Huffington Post | December 19, 2007 11:31 AM
David Sloan Wilson | Posted December 14, 2007 | Politics
In today's polarized world, the conflict between atheism and religion is shaping up to be the fight of the century. In this corner, the new atheists, flexing their muscles with books such as God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens and The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. In that corner,...
From the AP: Democrat John Edwards endorsed former rival Barack Obama on Wednesday, a...
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Utterly insane goings-on tonight on...
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Just off the House floor today, the Crypt overheard House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers tell two...
Tonight, Keith Olbermann unleashed what may well have been his...
The AP reports on Obama's swift and forceful response to Bush and McCain's criticism of...
The Tennessee GOP hasn't yet had their fill of Obama dirty tricks. A few months ago,...
***UPDATE*** Roughly five hours after making comments about...
Sixteen tips for getting good sleep. There's a lot of advice out there about getting good...
George W. Bush is unworthy of the presidency. He is a disgrace to himself,...
A lot is being said right now to the effect of, "What took him so long?" Some people...
Michael Conniff | Posted April 19, 2008 | Politics